Edward Saunders (entomologist)

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Edward Saunders ( 1848 , Wandsworth- 1910) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.

He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has ever since remained a classic. In order to render the synonymies ... as reliable as possible, he undertook the only foreign tour of his life, visiting in succession all the chief museums of Europe and examining personally the types'. [1]


[edit] Works

not including scientific papers in entomological journals

  • 1871 Catalogus Buprestidarum synonymicus et systematicus Janson, London.
  • 1892 The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British IslandsLondon.[1] Scans of plates
  • 1896, The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Isles London.

Saunders was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Society.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anon. 1853. Entomologists' monthly Magazine 46 :53
  • Anon. (1910). "Obit.". Entomologists' Monthly Magazine 46: 53. 


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